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shell0xon The Mafia may be keeping fentanyl out of Italy

There is a land border with Malaysia.

shell0xon The Mafia may be keeping fentanyl out of Italy

The Singapore model is to execute all the dealers.

https://www.iras.gov.sg/taxes/individual-income-tax/basics-o...

If you're well paid expat, it might not be the worst as well. You save so much on income tax in Singapore, but consumption is expensive.

I'm sure for many Singapore still comes out ahead cost wise.

shell0xon Waymo in Singapore

That's a good call-out actually. I haven't thought of people with kids.

shell0xon Waymo in Singapore

I said I never needed a car there :) I can get anywhere by cab in like < 30 mins so I never saw the need to have one. However there are plenty of ultra rich people living there and also many driving luxury cars. It's also a status symbol there(Credit card/Condo/Car).

shell0xon Waymo in Singapore

A basic commuter car costs over S180,000( US135,000) due to a compulsory 10-year quota license (COE/certificate of entitlement) that alone costs S$100,000+, plus registration taxes scaling up to 320% of the car's base value. Total running costs (tolls, parking, road tax) easily add S1,000–S2,000+ per month.

Singapore is so small though and cabs are cheap and I never needed a car. I can see why Waymo will be very attractive.

shell0xon My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini

Thanks, that’s what I’m currently using too.

shell0xon I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch

Thanks, that’s a fair comment. I definitely have no marketing experience :)

shell0xon My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini

Would you mind sharing your local Mac setup and which models you currently use and whether it’s GGUF or MLX? I’ve the hardware same specs.

shell0xon EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products

Taobao and Temu are great. The quality is not always amazing, but the prices are low and many sellers even offer customisation.

In Australia, the product selection is often limited, and a lot of local stores are just reselling Chinese-made products with huge markups anyway. At that point, you may as well order directly from China and save money.

It also saves 10% GST.

shell0xon Ferrari Luce

Temu Ferrari

shell0xon I love my Bluetooth keyboard

I’m planning to take an iPad air on a trip and thought about getting a bluetooth keyboard too.

What do people generally recommend for travel?

I don’t plan to use it for extensive periods of times, mainly writing some emails/docs/notes in the hotel room.

shell0xon The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100

Good job paying that off. I’m sure Australia has benefits for some but without kids, not having grown up here, paying my own insurance and not driving I don’t really see it.

shell0xon The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100

They would be much worse off if they stay in their own country and they even get 1 day rest per week.

shell0xon The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100

I lived in Singapore and Hk before, don’t drive, work from home and countries are pretty much interchangeable. I left Germany for high taxes for a reason.

I pay private medical so don’t benefit much from tax anyway. No kids, no car, paid off my apartment. I can get much better value elsewhere right?

If I tell you you can pick 3 dishes

a) singapore: safe, low crime, low tax, efficient, excellent public transportation, better roads b) hk: safe, low crime, low tax, politically getting worse, excellent public transport, better airport c) australia: higher crime compared to the other too, high tax but bad services

I basically pay for an overpriced dish with bland taste, so why would I keep doing that?

shell0xon The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100

Taxes are a financial loss.

I preferred living in Hong Kong and Singapore and do not enjoy living here honestly, but if you treat it as payment for my+partner’s backup citizenship, it seems more justifiable.

shell0xon The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100

You realize this is the standard in Asia right? They only cost like 2.5k a month which is pretty good value

https://www.life.gov.sg/guides/domestic-helper

https://www.immd.gov.hk/eng/services/visas/foreign_domestic_...

shell0xon The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100

I can get PR in Singapore through my partner, so no 60%. Company paid medical and everything so expat life and no responsibilities. And if I were ever have to have kids, you can’t hire a maid here sleeping at your apartment and you have to clean yourself which is ridiculous. In Hk, SG, Dubai you can get domestic helpers cheaply and they take care of everything

shell0xon The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100

If you live in inner Sydney, the rent alone is $1350 pw and tax is ridiculous. I basically sold my stocks to have a down payment but then that got added on top of income. If i’d have stayed in HK, i’d have paid 0% for that.

I just treat it as paying for Australian citizenship to make me feel better and it still comes out cheaper than buying a Saint Kitts and Nevis passport. Australian passport also opens up the E3 visa to go to the USA

shell0xon The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100

I could as a German but my partner has a weaker passport so I’m just waiting till she got her australian passport

shell0xon The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100

The tax is already bad here, even without it. I paid $89,000 taxes just for the last financial year because stock gains are added up on top of the income and my partner doesn’t work and there’s no family support allowance here.

I can apply Australian citizenship next year but I will leave ASAP after becoming a citizen for Singapore, Dubai or Hong Kong where the tax is < 20%

shell0xon Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says

Skilled people have O visas. The H1Bs are the ones you don’t want long-term.

shell0xon Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says

That makes sense to me. If you come on a non-immigrant visa, you can’t become a permanent resident easily. it’s a privilege, not a right. Other countries like the UAE also take a lot of foreign workers but do not want them become PRs or citizens and there are tons of people moving there for opportunities. The labor is needed but they don’t want these people permanently. You made your money, now leave

shell0xon Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE

“Meta blocks Western propaganda from reaching the Middle East” would be a good title

shell0xon Cisco workforce reductions

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shell0xon GitHub outage: CCR and CCA failing to start for PR comments

refs/pull/1234/head is missing

shell0xon GitHub outage: CCR and CCA failing to start for PR comments

copilot review and copilot agent I’d assume.

The API is flaky for me, pull requests don’t show up in the list anymore and webhooks are failing

shell0xon Our AI started a cafe in Stockholm

Yeah screw these people wasting police time and suppliers time. The cops should just start fining them.

shell0xon Apple Cuts More Mac Studio and Mac Mini RAM Options as Memory Shortage Worsens

I bought a Mac Studio with 128gb RAM and M4 Max a year ago for local LLMs. 96gb memory doesn’t seem to be sufficient?

shell0xon Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%

My employer does that too and people don’t even read or review code anymore.